Kevin Hart Opens Up About Being Irresponsible & His Favorite Drug

we're you're for Mount Rushmore comedians you have to see yourself what's the great to be the great when did I do grown little man that was around was that my Broca's point my dick growing with a man keep the circle tight make sure that's a bubble that can't be popped whoever these people are go with those people you guys should understand each other inside now this is a good time this is honestly a good time so there are a lot of great comedians out there many of them many of them that I like I watch but there's only one that has nearly 150 million people following them on social media okay and by the way only a handful of countries have one hundred fifty million population this may could be a country by myself only guy in the comedy world that's filled up football stadiums football stadiums we've heard you know basketball and somewhat football stadiums and Forbes 2016 earnings I think it's eighty seven and a half million some of the numbers 69 69 million I think 2017 and and he says recently in a podcast I think on variety that he wants to be a business mogul he already is a business his name is a business already but he wants to be a billionaire by 45 years old Kevin - brother I wanna be with you here today I do a great on trail I'm doing very good ignore the financial numbers and you can tweet him for a loan and Kevin Hart and he will not reply by the way too soon a disclaimer okay so Kevin first of all we're excited about having you in August and Vegas that's gonna be a blast I can't wait it's gonna be that's gonna be a lot of money I got a lot of questions to get into what some part of its gonna be business someone's gonna be comedy you know something's gonna be personal life and how you discipline yourself but let's start off with the first one when did you know you were funny when did I know it was funny when I know you were funny for real for real funny I had my banquet for my swim team I swim for a team called PDR Philadelphia Department of Recreation you were a swimmer I was a swimmer so is there I'm an amazing swimmer really I am didn't like it because my mom made me do it that was her way to keep me off the streets so swimming takes up all your time you got practice before school long practice after school to the practice you are beaten you're too tired to do anything so I was pretty much underachiever because I did whatever I had to do just to get by as strong so at our banquet all of the people in the swim team were getting amazing Awards scholarships it's just just unbelievable with these people accomplished in a sport of swimming and I think I got like a participant award which was which was nothing which is like how are you at the stuff I'm this is my last this is 16 this is 16 yeah this is my last year so my class like my swim class they're all going off to college everybody's excited oh my god USC University of Maryland building over Penn State name it they're going everywhere I got a participant in war and you know we all had to give speeches and I just gave a speech on being an underachiever and like just how I know I'm not good and you guys don't have to like just give me fake Pat's on the back when we leave you all know that I'm not at the level of everybody else but I did it was such a sense of humor where the room was dying how big the audience oh man it may have been 70 people at the banquet 70 75 and without realizing it then it was like a comedy said I had a beginning middle and end to a speech that I didn't even write down I was just personable I got up and talked and and winged it and when I got all people were clapping and after the banquet everybody was just saying the same thing your son is so funny he's so funny he's so personable we love them we're gonna miss you but the word personable we're funny was used so much and I think that's the day when it really clicked I've always been funny but that's they would have really clicked this could actually be your entertaining others it wasn't it wasn't this is going to be my career of choice because I didn't know at the time oh so this isn't a dream so you are not grown you know I'm gonna grow up in one I'm watching all these other guys no I wish I wish I could sit in a lot of you say that was the case I'm a late bloomer and understanding what hard work brains it's something that my mom beat down my throat and because of the way she did it I didn't want to comprehend it when I had no choice but to understand it I got lucky by having something I love to put along the same line with the message that she was giving got it school wasn't what I wanted to do which is why I never got my all so who were you in high school it has high school with you who's Kevin Hart in high school funniest guy in school what is that yours well how were you the funniest guy nice guy class clown most popular kid in school how BIG's our school I'm at a big school I went to school George Washington High School Northeast huge school I liked the fact that it was that verse where I grew up in Philadelphia we didn't have other races of people around us you know I mean it was blacks in my neighborhood black people on this side of the tracks I think we had some Puerto Rican people that we may have been cool with but it was it was a minority driven neighborhood going through the Northeast my first time really interacting with white people on a regular basis this was the first time uh in high school no no she sent me out different middle school too so my last year's a middle schooler in high school was a 9 9 through 12 to 10 through 12 was 9 through 12 but I went to middle school was 7th and 8th god but with that day it helped me become the people person that I am today I was always a guy that was in a mixture of races wow that's so amazing you're saying oh this it's the truth that is amazing so I I got this one thing that I've really that I really appreciate about momma Dee the fact that she puts you in an environment like this so I grew up in Glendale if you've been to Glendale that's 90% I mean they're all Middle East and you go you know everybody there's Middle East yes so I go to the army when I go into the arm and I go to Kentucky no one's made of lead nobody had to learn very quickly how to yeah work with different that kind of helps you in business obviously this has helped you with your career because your audience is very diverse you talked about your mom you reference her a lot a lot you give her a lot of credit for what she's done and how we do all these other things what were some things your mom did to you specifically that helped you become who you are today my mom was very hard on me and the reason why is because I think she saw the mistakes that she made with my brother you know my brother was Muslim he was a loose cannon my brother he didn't have a tight leash on him he come and go as he pleased curfew was later and because of that she saw the road that he went down you know my brother went down very bad road getting locked up young age you know selling drugs what's the age difference man my brother eight years apart got it eight years apart and with me I think was more of a panic of I'm not gonna allow this to happen again and it's typically the other way around by the way typically you guys are easier on the younger than they are the older and I've heard that I've definitely heard that but in my case it was not had to be home at six o'clock I mean I really saw night time in my teenage years and especially with being outside amongst friends it was always doing something constructive with my time so she never let me waste time in a day if I had time that time was either spent during practice studying or preparing for something that was to come my downtime came on a weekend where everything else was done and my Saturday was spent watching cartoons where I was in the gym with her while she was dead to jail working what were your cartoons about it we just decide no justice no what you watch I was a big Bugs Bunny guy heavy heavy time and Jerry had every Tom and Jerry have that's old school Flintstones Wow I'm getting older I'm 38 now yeah where your mother's my stuff is back there yeah I'm Jerry Flintstones those are my those are my picks a boy school sounds good so it's okay so now mom's discipline she's keeping you positively distracted all the positive distractions in your life and then later on later on when you're getting to a point when you're kind of figuring out because your story with your mom is a complete opposite story with your father why can you talk a little bit about your experience with your dad yeah two different roads can make it right or left I had a choice to make a left at one point in time of my life you know my mom and my dad were together didn't say together didn't work out my dad was a loose cannon on drugs off drugs in jail out of jail you watch you saw witness all of this I didn't know god I was I was I was younger so the secret was kept from me but everybody else except me me your older brother knew not would rather know eight years everybody else when you're blind to the reality of what your environment is you know sometimes people let you touch a hot stove so you can go oh that's hot so my mom at one point we're like you know what go to your father you always said you want to go to that go and I got an opportunity to go with my dad and this isn't to say that my dad you know didn't care because you were yearning you were curious yeah I wanna go I'm mighty God you [ __ ] you don't let me do nothing I'm gonna go with dad my dad to complete opposite how would you at that time when you're saying this tomorrow probably 12 so that young and moms go to death at this point you want to prove a point go good for her for Evan anymore so you want to do it go because my brother was an army in the time so it's just me and my mom sweet butting heads you know we're we're buddy I'm 30 I'm actually 1314 because my brother was in army where we're just at it every day and my thing was you just you you're not getting me you not letting me grow up let me go with dad you know my dad was the complete opposite my dad and a no-rules go we're going to go back go you dad my friends gonna go ahead you ask no questions or nothing and you get there and you realize it's not supposed to be like this like even supposed to have some kind of guidance around here right like there's no rules at all dad you do it man go away hey don't forget you got school what what you ain't making sure it was it was that level of comfort it was that level of I guess not understanding the the real role of a parent at that time and he had a lot of stuff going on and that's where I had to make the conscious decision to say mom I was wrong I want to come back and to come back it was understand that you're gonna go through my rules and it's gonna be my wave and higher standards it's it's it's something I had to deal with but I had to make that decision to say okay I had to eat that humble pie how long did you live with your pops during that time man it may have lasted three days three days I was back home three today I'm not dealing with this year I got to go I got to go man I got to go too many people in the house I'll no none of these people people coming in and out just welcomed it wasn't what I was used to it wasn't my comfort zone so then you come back and then you know you obviously your mom sets the expectation you have to respond to it have no more problems guys okay so now let's fast forward let's fast forward after school you're out of school you're not in high school anymore I think you had a stint selling shoes where you were you a Salesman a shoe salesman I can see you being a ridiculous thing you want to know man Bernice you down who's that now you were something like you were you're selling lady's shoes er were using us sneakers sneakers City sports Philadelphia supernatant pronate when she would polyurethane convinced DVA hmm what kind of protecting you anything name it I can tell you today how long did you sell for uh I was at City Sports for about two years got it so it's a good enough time I mean you even have two years yeah yeah so when did you so you know when you get that one message seven years seventy kids are in the room seventy people aren't there oh my gosh your kids so funny you know they're saying that to your mom and your peers are around all these other guys are getting the scholarships you're getting a participation award maybe I can go make people laugh did somebody tell you Kevin won't you go give comedy a shot you know or was it mom or did you say you know what I'm gonna go do stand-up comedy it wasn't it wasn't my mom was somebody from my job where I worked at City Sports somebody was like yo man you you have us laugh and every day like literally every day at work is a fun day because of you you come here you just delivering jokes non-stop why don't you do comedy because where we worked at there was a comedy club around a corner called laugh house do you still keep in contact with that person that told you or know from work no no but we we were good friends it's Allison if I seen it would be like I never stopped seeing you pick up right where we left off I mean those are all great relationships amazing yes somebody that's not in your life gives you that yeah you you just because you lose contact don't believe it doesn't mean you lost contact yeah you can see a person to pick up right where you left off those relationships that I had in that job it was that those those people definitely helped with the push they helped with the the jump start to me understanding how to go about doing comedy it's Antonia at the time 1819 it was a thought I did not do it yeah I don't know where to go so somebody said comedy club yeah I want to go yeah my god let's do it it wasn't even a fight I didn't know it existed I didn't know and it was a comedy club down the street from you it was right around the corner so the barber that cuts my hair I'm gonna tell you if what he tells me so I said listen yeah it's cut my hair two days ago I said Michael I'm gonna be with Kevin Hart he says no I said yeah Michael rapattoni Michael if you're watching I'm giving you a shout out right now Michael rapattoni he's one of these guys that was a former boxer with enough story there's a reason why he's a bar business great story my story is that Andy he cuts my hair for 45 minutes it's not one of those five minutes he's just talking to the entire time so she says you know I'm from Philadelphia no you're from Philadelphia but what does that have to do with Kevin I know Kevin's also Philadelphia says Pat there was a time that Kevin used to go to this club called helium no no helium yeah he says he's got a helium and they had Amateur Night in the late 90s he says what I was blown away by Kevin on Amateur Night at helium is he kicked everybody's tail and every night because he would go watch every single night he said every night he would bring something new you would say how does he come up with all this stuff is what he was talking about so i'ma tell you exactly what he's doing and there's there's a high level of truth to it helium comedy club is a comedy club in Philadelphia but he's referring to the laugh House helium comedy club came after the laugh house was like going through their problems hidden comedy club came they're just an amazing comedy club ran professionally just gave a new look to comi and Philadelphia but what he's talking about with amateur nights every week the amateur nights were held on Thursday at helium or this is what the laughs house got a but the winner got $75 I won the competition for about six to eight weeks I was saying I was winning the competition it was all amateurs and I was winning but the reason why I would make sure after each one I said I don't want to go back and say the same stuff so the week leading up to it would be me trying to create whatever my new jokes were and of course it's beginning so they're they're green they're hacky jokes there's nothing great there's no brilliant material but my energy my energy needs to be nuts I would come on stunts more than two days oh my god I run I would run from the back I remember my name is lo cab the bastard I never say give it up for a little care of the basket I've just run through the doors I would grab the store now I was talking about a minute you couldn't because I was so pumped up but at the time I wasn't Kevin Hart I wasn't I wasn't being myself I was being a version of what I thought I should be to get laughs and that version of me was getting laughs but as a character so it wasn't it saucer to figure out that I didn't have to be a character that I got really funny I was situational funny yeah but your foot and and I'd be bumpy first grabber than you oh man I can't you see the way you look at your hand when you wipe your butt it was stupid stuff it was nothing crazy it was stupid stuff hey you have a drain you fall in it like a joke hey what but my energy would get he was so crazy he said he said one he says he says Pat here's the only thing one day I show up he says I was such a loyal faces one day or something how come he's not here anymore he says then I found out he was so good that he got the attention of people in New York apparently yes as he started going to New York he's very very well he followed it very closely and the crazy thing is I got out of Philadelphia because I was seeing the same people your reach wasn't a big reach I was like well it's not that I was seeing the same people the same comedians the same audience people every week wouldn't you see the same if you went somewhere else though but that's thing I didn't know god I wasn't content with not knowing I was like it has to be more what what's the next Kevin is this late 90s this is late you're 21 21 22 this is late nineties this is this is 98 99 and I met a guy named Keith Robinson who's an unbelievable mentor to me and this is the guy who was telling me just like man you gotta start talking about more you gotta start talking about yourself he said I want you to come with me to New York I didn't know the guy from from from this piece of paper on the table but we say you gotta come with me to New York I jumped at it because I was like is more comedy in New York I'm going I want to see it I was so eager to see what else was out there and I saw that when he when he opened up that door not to look behind it and I saw what was there 12 13 comedy clubs in New York I got to see comedians on stage all races there were your casino yours oh my god all races shape sizes I was I got big I got big what's that it that was when that was when it was over that was my that was the addiction at the highest level when I woke you the first time you went up on stage I know you all took me I didn't go on stage I just saw which one what club was it the first one I haven't even said Comedy Cellar and who did you hear the Jews do you remember the names I say exactly who I saw and who walked in and I was mind blown Jerry Seinfeld Ray Romano came on the same Wow and I was like you know they this is when their TV shows are to hide other shows Colin Quinn George Wallace was there this is Patrice O'Neal legit in the prom this is rich vos in his prime bill burr this is Tracy Morgan in his prime young Chris Rock this is when I tell you this is me cuz the seller you got to think this is when SNL was real big for a lot of these guys going back and forth Colin Quinn had Weekend Update this is where they would go to see where everybody was holding their material so before I got on stage I was sitting in the comedy club and just watching the grades Damon Wayans came in one night and had a piece of paper which they working on gonna take a lot doing that I'm literally just looking nobody know I'm the dirty kid nobody know I mean little dirty kid that nobody knows what he does but Keith Robinson took a liking to me and he was educating the Keith you know all those guys keith was it you and you it keith is a comedy legend one of the psychs myself rock we all our students of the Kiva's honest and camp I mean there's so many comedians that he helped breed and mold into what they are today and my understanding for comedy and the way that jokes should be told the way the story should be vetted out the way to the set has a beginning middle and ending that comes from Keith he gave you the system he a hundred percent would he sit there with you and say Kevin here's how I come up with a joke there's really not he wouldn't so that parts on you now do your work dummy that's me saying that [ __ ] I'm telling you what you're not doing my job to tell you what you're not doing is your job to figure out how to do it so I would get offstage here's what he did to me one night it's the best lesson he ever gave I want stage and I kill you you ever get up on a buzzin King King King it's a bunch of that just a bunch of a bunch of nonsense hey you look at somebody like one it's nothing he says I want you to see something I stand next to him and like five people are walking out he says do you enjoy the show and I'm like yeah yeah yeah and I you were so funny he says what's his name what about you you know his name oh wait what uh you were the third guy you were number four you were four you were number four nobody knew my name he said you know why they don't know your name you don't say who you are he say do you have kids you might have kids you got a mother a father a brother a sister tell us who are you why cuz nobody knows anything about you all they know is that you are funny everybody that comes through here is funny only the special ones make it much further than this because people feel like they know they invest in them in her career so then he started making me watch the great so when you start to watch the quote/unquote girl live they talk about themselves everybody's there talking about themselves their experiences their opinion they're feeling or effect from said thing one two or three oh how immediately did you make your adjustment well it was a fast you try breathing you struggle you struggle with the change cuz I'm so comfortable with my style you ever see don't you hate when man I can't stand black people do this but white people do this I'm so comfortable doing that as soon as I had to change it and start saying hey I'm Kevin Hart I'm not confident in Kevin Hart cuz I don't think Kevin Hart's funny I think this guy what all this energy is funny it was a mental thing so I had to tap out of that and tap into the real me and put the character to the side how soon did you get up and perform yourself after that so you tell they're back and forth to New York for about seven months to a year before I got on stage in New York you're kidding me no so seven months to a year Your Honor performing a laugh at the Healey alone in there and a couple little spots in New York there's a couple oh nothing big yeah nothing big nothing big and during this time have you built any relationship with me they all know me and everybody's cord really nice to me and the reason for going back and forth from Philadelphia to New York I had to make something I lived in New York that's the only want to get spots they have to be able to rely on you and think that you're going to make the time so the first time you got it when was it and what was it first time I got was age I got an audition I got my first one at Caroline's and I got over it was like I say like eight months probably I was going up there past Caroline's Carolina started booking me a couple during the week they don't pay they give you food like they call food spots until you become a weekend comedian then you get like $50 a spot in New York the Comedy Cellar then that got up there in the Comedy Cellar past me food spots again staying in New York I think give you like five dollars a spot weekend's the same twenty five to fifty dollars but it was a slow grind but then when you get in all of them you got to think in New York you're doing seven to eight spots on the weekend so you get in $50 a spot and you're doing six to seven to eight spots on for Sunday you you got a good weekend you figure it's four weekends in a month you can pull 2,000 2,500 dollars mm-hmm in New York you can survive you can support yourself and during a week the goal would be to book colleges or other shows elsewhere and then come around a weekend colleges you were performing at colleges informing the colleges man and a college agent that's how I was staying afloat my college agent is here in Chicago bass jewel entertainment so when you say college like colleges you know am I going to the auditorium and performing in the auditorium colleges wherever they put you sometimes you'd be in order to and sometimes you be in a lunchroom sometimes you'll be in like a a created atmosphere it could be like their lounge space and they just put a microphone in a while colleges have a certain amount of money that they have to spend a year on entertainment so it goes the music and comedians around them you know was one of the things we forget about is there is no social media at the time now so you are you have to go hustle to get up nowadays somebody can put in one video sixty million views everybody does it here's my head shot that's my guess the HUS here's my tape Wow my numbers in there if you want to call that's my tape please watch the tape so who's the first name that saw you perform that said dude you the real deal like who was the first person that came and said this guy somebody's gonna tell Dave Attell smart comedian very funny I'm not sure be familiar with him if you're not educate yourself on Dave Chappelle you would love repeal Dave Attell I tell a tale okay very very funny guy he had a show on Comedy Central called insomniacs for a long time he saw me perform and was blown away by my performance and he called his manager who was Dave Becky who is now my manager and say you got to see this guy Dave Becky reached out to me came to see me and in coming to see me expressed that he would love to work with me he was a manager he deals with some of the biggest and best names in the business today but he said look he doesn't do the contracts and try to have people sign my life away worse on a handshake basis he said are you willing to work I'm willing to help you tell them I was willing to work he said he's willing to help shook hands he came Washington perform put me in other comedy clubs got me in other spots I started to get better sharper faster and I got him to it's called the Montreal Comedy Festival and he made me turn it down he's like we're not ready say they want you to go your new face and it'll be great but we wait one more year we'll go and we'll be the talk of the town trust me let's wait I said I'm gonna listen to you my manager everything this man said has never not worked and because of that he's been my manager for 15 16 plus years Wow Kousaka Dave Attell gets denied of the discovery of oh my god disguised grandshaykh come here come meet this guy game over yeah so first first big hit what's the first big hit for you my first big hug you are still not on TV I'm so not your Kevin still are not on TV what's the big hit biggest audience biggest platform biggest place you perform well you actually were nervous about it like I got to really come through and see if I can ever say it would come from this event called NACA which is where I got my college agents okay this is what my college agents has set me up for so bad Schuler was out of Chicago yeah the whole thing we get into college agent as a comedian this is how you're gonna survive colleges pay you a thousand five hundred seven hundred but they can block bookie you can do seven colleges in a week you can do two in one day another and in that city they'll put you in like a run where you go from city to city city you'll come out with five six thousand dollars that's in a week oh my god you get two good weeks this is great money you talking 12 13 grand a 22 year old comedian this is I'm rich if I can book one of these you got to get an agent you gotta get in the neck how do you get in the neck well you got to make a tape tapes got to be seven minutes got to be clean no cursing I'm gonna make a tape got to figure it out had to go to a comedy club had to get a comedy club to let me do it able to come to club had to get tape edited where it has to be a life tape like a lot of live performance got it you got to get edited who won't edit it I don't know I figure it out from who what huh go figure it out stupid you're grown ask questions this week you for telling me made me do it all on my own get it out of this okay now you got editing you got to get headshots now there are headshots now you got to package it up you got to go send it out each package that you send out your sentence for all of the different conferences I think it was like 55 or $70 per conference that you have to send your thing in with so you gotta have a chat below so to send out your headshots your take everything it would cost you like 350 hours I don't have that type of money with a lot of money at that time figure it out stupid get it it's worth it I got it send out all my packages from Bad Schuler bachelor said we got in we got you in the neck it's the biggest conference ever every school Under the Sun comes here this is two thousand two thousand ones this is 2002 got it 2002 it's amazing that's only 16 years ago 2002 I'll never forget NACA 2002 the biggest conference name a college there there you perform after you perform you go to a booth the colleges are walking around and they come up to the different comedians boots and they booked you on the spot we want you for this date this state if you don't be bad you're gonna get a lot of dates if you're bad you're gonna come out there with no dance it's pressure like no pressure before I'm next goals the commedia before me bombs the bombing of life I mean I mean it's just it's bad I mean nobody's laughing do you know what I know that kept me young I mean nobody's laughing it's quiet and it wasn't a this wasn't a rude room it was very professional so there are no boos it was just quiet which boo me get let me hear something tell me get my ass off the stage they were just quiet the comedian goes well I guess that means no dates for me thank you guys for the opportunity politely put the microphone and a stand walked off the hosts comments all and the host is like all right let's keep that energy going his exact words let's keep the energy going give it up the little kids oh wait no he changed his name Kevin Hart this is my intro oh [ __ ] okay get it together I go up there how'd you change your name you're not going back Kevin Hart I wasn't no more little kid I wasn't little Kevin I'm not Kevin Hart now this is perd me and my conversation with Kiki my first minute I was getting them getting him a little loose give him a little loose I said a joke whole room laughs the rest of my set we were supposed to be 15 minutes I ended up destroying standing ovations I go to my booth I probably booked 75 Wow so that's it 75 dates something to add up the money I'm like my year my year is full keith is like the ones on the weekends don't do make them put everything during the week get all your money read your weekends to be in New York Aries has to be in New York I'm like are you crazy it is like almost 100 grand look at the money cuz they offered me like 1,200 to 1,500 a show stupid you need to be in New York all right I made everything on a week my Mondays through Thursdays was you named a Bismarck North Dakota the Cumberland Kentucky to Nashville Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee I was I was going all of driving a hundred and fifty miles I didn't want to fly because it would cut into the money put in so many miles on rental cars this is before all the apps and stuff on the phone so you got the directions printed out me my friend 19 who slipped me into this day I told my would give him money to act as my host open up for me he said bet man 19 were road warriors I mean hundreds of thousands of miles driven driving 12 hours to do a show how long how long was that run rate which schools this was this was this one on for a couple years so all four yeah because you got to think as the schools go they want you back so you're not you have you gone on TV yet or now yo this is all just or you're still not on TV this is just grinding this is just I'm figuring out figuring out figuring out so here's what happened I I then did Montreal Comedy Festival Montreal Comedy Festival got me a deal and that's when I did my first pilot that's when it was okay I now have an opportunity to be on TV the pilot didn't get picked up so now I don't have an opportunity but then I do a bootleg movie called paper soldiers paper soldiers which I had no idea would be anything but it was a movie offered to me by Dame Dash and jay-z at the time I said I would love to work with you get connected with them saw me in New York on the weekend all goes full circle keep said be available in the weekends because you never know what's gonna happen in the city that's where Dame Dash saw me perform Caroline's on a weekend so instead of chasing the six figures we're going for the big week we have to be around you have to be visible you have to be seen that movie that never went to the theaters that gave me the opportunity to put a real together that was my tape I sent this out to Dave Becky who've been sent it out to people all over California Hollywood XY and Z that tape is what got me the audition for parts and TV shows that's what ABC saw NBC that's what allowed me to go on the rooms with the heads of the studios and pitch my TV show how fast was that that all happened in the blink of an eye so you went from not being on TV to being a star well it wasn't star it was just I'm the hot guy he's a hot guy and this is all five this is he's gonna be like this is the hot guy Oh in two oh four oh five or six who is the lead runner who were the main names in Oh 506 Chappell Chappell was Chappell Katt Williams was really starting to make a name and terror stuff a god thing can't really start cat really was banging oh six 208 that's right he did a movie with snow but was a car wash something he did car wash I know what you're talking about would drain the whole thing with the Palm Pilot you know the line is he had he had several I mean look yeah I think that's when the Friday next Friday to find it the next this is all in that time so Chapelle Katt Williams those were your those were your two but it was more about the Chappelle's Show around this time you know around it are you close with Chappelle out the time do you guys have a relationship or we I know him but we not I don't have the relationship yes I know you yes we're we're comedians we're all in the same circular okay but this is just where I'm now working things are now going good soul plane you know I did so from what year was so clear like I don't know the exact year so playing I know I know that from the years when you go 2002 to 2006 to 7:00 that's where everything happened that's what all of the things that were supposed to make me a star it all happened in that time when did you consider yourself your start like this is now I'm a star they know me in my space last four years you can say I'm a I'm a star like you're a superstar but people don't I don't think a lot of people understand the real definition of star there's different levels of star I agree so you can be a star in your school you can be a star on campus you know you can be a star on the East Coast you could be only a star on the west coast like whit what is the definition are start to me a superstar man I I remember star now I I can embrace what that is because I've known the definition for a long time some people who said it I'm so now would you say you're when did you become a superstar is that a three-year thing less I would say last three last three to four years when I start going international when I got international successes when I said okay now now it's real well you can go anywhere and people go in the world yes China do bus business got it that's where you can start to play around with that but that's why I work so hard because I've never been content with the little levels of success in your book you talk about oh my gosh I can't believe I'm rich you know I'm rich so when did that happen we're luck I'm making money you don't want to on me I thought I was rich when I got 25,000 for a pilot so I want to get depends on the levels that she goes from you know you're talking about having no idea what money is to making your first good amount of money I mean that $25,000 check was a real thing when I did NACA and I made all that money from them schools and then they took all that money out of my check for taxes and I'm like wait what who what person attacks you know these are all things that become education educational hard core moments that you have to deal with at the time but when I got my first deal my first deal was $225,000 and that was from ABC ABC gave me 225,000 it was a hold nice money that's maybe you're getting rich yeah I'm not the bottom I'm not I'm by mama house in a car gotta give my brother house cuz that's one Chuck yeah but I'm getting a lot of houses this is how you think you don't budge about your first floor yeah it was getting me gotta get me a watch brought a bunch of throwback jerseys need those got to give me some throwback hats to Maxwell's jerseys hey man you know I got a business manager now he running that hey real quick shift this money so I can use this keV you don't have any money excuse me what you mean I got money guys had 225 Ken well we never pay taxes on the money so now you're actually in the hole because you ran through the money you gave out so much well then nobody why don't they take it out to check they you said well you know corporated well you did explain to me what that meant well Kevin we we assumed that you understood what that was when we did it so what you say it well you owe you owe a hundred and twenty five thousand huh and the same as you never paid on the other money that you made from previous pilots and television gigs so I ended up being in a hole what your is this is buses no this is when that do grown little man that was when I was at my broker's point when I did grown little man whenever I did grown little man I was when the money was sold that's when it was like well I bounced checks I'm curious to know what your the tip roll or your night o night this is owner owner and that's when everything hit the fan i old the government and absurd amount of money i I was like what I don't understand what happened to the money that I had I looked up I couldn't even tell you where it went where where is it I just member seen a bunch of Jersey nights yours is all yeah unbelievable I remember saying I said man if you give me a second chance give me a second chance your thing this was the movies I had I did so playing at the time I had some TV shows I had like my scary movie threes fours I had all of this stuff but I didn't pay tank nobody told I didn't know he's already done all these things and you might so I knew nothing so I ended up owing like five hundred thousand it was it like a weird number and I was like yellow so give me a second shot I said it'll never happen again I remember I said it'll never happen again I learned my lesson I just got to figure out how to recover and that's when I went back to the heavy stand-up grind as some popularity I was I had a little bit of recognition with my face people will go oh that's the guy so I start doing comedy clubs I saw some male comedy club and I the business manager I had at the time I fired I wanted to understand how to control my money deal with my money make sure I see my check sign all my checks and I said I want to take the absolute minimal amount for myself and everything else I'm just gonna put in an account i'ma call it a tax account and until I get that number back plus a percentage on top of it I'm gonna live off of that minimal amount made that decision of their choice yes and then once I got out the hole in like a year and a half yeah got out the hole from all the comedy clubs and I said you don't have to pay up to $500 yeah because I was gonna comma Club so I was making fifteen grand eight grand 10 grand 9 grand I was doing well familiar because well you know everything is next year I dedicated the same thing so I could get out that hole even yeah so I paid that back into the following year I did the same thing so I could be double out the hole so I'm in a hole 500 but you really do need a million doesn't need that yeah but because the government it was so long I was able to get a little bit of a break in the amount of money I old so I settled for a less amount was still the chunky amount but I ended up paying probably like seven hundred total to get out but it took me you don't have two years taking that and then once I got out I say oh never again how are you handling it at that time while you're performing like are you because this is pressure this is a pressure type situation you've seen it worse it's no pressure you've seen you're performing you're not even thinking about it your problem you just I have a game plan I'm gonna go hit it I'm gonna make that money back in I've seen the words got it what else can happen I'm doing years ago yes I faced the words I saw it oh that's what looked like there it is that's what that's what don't have nothing look like right there oh I don't want to see that [ __ ] again so different so when when was it when you made real money when is like when I'm talking real money because there's a big difference between 25 I went in real mindful Wow are you you been making a real money for a while enough about now it's all over I do so much so able to see it from so many different streams but there's no monster like the monster of touring no monster you know I own my tour it's all me Live Nation is my partner but you know the deals are all up to me I keep my partner in a loop Mayweather's down so this is got it I keep it I keep them in loop because I'm loyal to them because they were there with me in the beginning got it I'm never gonna cut them out let me let me talk to you on the comedian side a little bit I'm piercing on the comedian side a little bit so so when you think about comedians there's a there's a very what he called a trend my there's a run rate and there's a big fall mmm right and then you know there's a run rate a little bit maybe a fall and then it dissipates right why do you think that happens and why do you think it's so common in in in your world I think it happens because you allow it to happen no matter what there's always gonna be a high level of a pain and negativity that comes with any level of success everybody loves to have something to say it becomes cool mm-hmm at a certain point to say something negative people love to watch the movie of success oh my god we saw it we saw you getting care but it's a better movie to watch you fall so if you're content in that fall and shoulder shrugging oh well I was here at one point in time then that fall is gonna be a fast fall it's easy but you don't even let the media have a chance that shown now I don't even look at me to have a chance that you're never very big on recreating myself I'm very big on creating other entities that can act as revenue streams with or without me I'm very big on the brand of Kevin Hart surviving with or without me you can't make the mistake that you've seen others in your position make actually highest levels of success instead of enjoying that those are the moments where you put yourself in position to do business with people that are much bigger than you so for me I grew up in Iran war pretty difficult environment the way I overcame a lot of it was humor laughter levity right he just kind of have to figure out a way to get everybody to become right that's a very common thing with comedians you know had a very pressure type situation life where Robin Williams carry you know the list is along this where you go through that your life you know that you have this thing and then you have the drive side that comes with you when you're there and you're always so there's the show camera everyone's watching oh my gosh I'm gonna go watch it he's so funny I love this guy he's hilarious is that performance or is that Kevin behind closed doors those are kind of like camera action oh the character has been off you know I told you when the character exists that has been off I mean I made bablu some dates here and there by just not remembering the exact times like I'm so yeah I know it was in that mm but there-there is no sense of false to me now what do you mean well what you see is what you get this is a hundred percent me all the time it's not it's not an act but your energy is here when you're up there in 100 percent me all the time I have no reason not to be this guy I just told you I saw it I saw two I don't think that's everybody though no it's not everybody because I think they'll act yeah I think there's within itself yeah but the reason why the reason why is is my take on life my take home life is completely different alright if I look at the odds and I look at what it's supposed to be I'm not supposed to be in this chair I'm not supposed to have the level of thinking that I have at this point in time in my career with this success I'm supposed to be comfortable I'm supposed to be like a days ago I'm supposed to be the [ __ ] statistics show I'm supposed to be on drugs I'm supposed to be a train wreck right now I'm supposed to be on my down so what keeps you grounded the fact that I'm the complete opposite of what I'm quote-unquote supposed to be the fact that you hear people say five minutes of fame and six minutes of fame and it's much more bigger than that the fact that at any point in time that rug can be pulled out from under you and that world can no longer exist as Follis Hollywood is false it's not real it's make-believe that's not real the day that you believe in and think is real is a day you lose it's not real that's why I work as hard as I do I'm going to get it all right now so if you ever do decide to pull it from under me there's so many other things that can't be pulled because I've set it up when I had the opportunity to yourself yeah Jerry Seinfeld said it best Jerry Seinfeld said I don't want to do this anymore because I know right now I'm at the top of it I'm here and I want this to end on such a high note that people always have good things to say about it he didn't walk away from the business he still does comedian cars he still does stand-up comedy I mean me and Jerry go back and forth with the Forbes thing now yeah him or me if I'm not on tour is gonna be him Chappelle pop back up that's the beauty of doing stand-up comedy he didn't leave the business he was smart enough to say I'm not gonna allow Hollywood to pull this from under me and tarnish what I control but how do you control your emotional like on the emotional side Urich um so for instance if Will Ferrell decided to play the role of Corleone II Godfather Forest coming up there's no way in the world I want to look at Will Ferrell and say dude you are not a mobster you know what I'm saying I'm just not gonna see it right okay do you ever feel like the industry puts you in a box of hey Kevin you're a comedian make me laugh and you've got to be on all the time and so how do you differentiate one I'm gonna put the hat on right now it's the business head right now it's the comedian hat right now it's the actor hands the industry doesn't control it I told you you lose when you when you adapt that perspective here here's why I'm not a work-for-hire even when I am a work-for-hire I put myself in position to be a partner in the beginning I had to be hired please pick me that's what you're busting your ass for it to not be the please pick me god yes so when you're no longer to please pick me god you're the I want to do this I choose to do I want to do this yeah here's what I'm doing so there is no box that you're being put into did you want to get to this point like what is it I want to get to the points that I'm gonna choose and want to do the work for someone when did you think yes I want to get to this point that because I want to control I'm not saying hire me anymore I look at the I look at the people that I admire and I look at the people who careers have went above and beyond what people may have expected to be when you look at just in your space or period and we can tell you paired let's look at let's look at let's look at Tyler Perry I'm gonna use Tyler Perry's example right whether you love Tyler Perry or not if you think Tyler Perry's the best actor in the world or not Tyler Perry from a business perspective is a genius this is a friend of mine I talk to him all the time from writing from producing from creating from selling Tyler Perry started off don't the same thing I do he was a performer he did plays he wrote the play they took the plays on a road he toured he sold out those ideas those concepts went on and on and on Hollywood then saw what he was doing and said oh my god this is special Tyler said I'll tell you how special it is I got a movie here's the movie oh my god we want to do it with you okay I'm gonna write it I also want to help produce it I want to be in business with you he positions herself at a partner so early on because the entity that he had with in Medea was created from a world that he owned the live performance yeah as a stand-up comedian my financial side is so high I don't have to do the movies I lose money when I do the movies because the live aspect of it I control I own of course I own those movies when I lose you wanna do man I want ya but they also help the brand so he that's cuz you also Tyler Perry that's a person I look at it and go well I want that who else under Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy you look at Eddie Murphy you know my animation is so attractive you know what Eddie Murphy really broke the banquette the donkey Shrek Shrek the donkey people think and though my gosh Shrek what's so crazy you wanna know why you don't see Michael Myers anymore goddamn Shrek three two one you're talking billions of hours of animation the deals they had at that point time were unprecedented unprecedented so so oh my god Eddie did animation oh my god and Eddie did what wait Eddie he was a producer writer on what wait what does he do now huh he he controls what you got a dig behind the scenes when you look behind the scenes you go oh my god well you look at leo and you really dig behind the scenes when you look at Tom Cruise there's not a person besides Will Smith Will Smith Tom Cruise sit in a world of their own that a more in-depth with their movie projects Tom Cruise and editing room he's a Tom Cruise Rizzo is a scientist he's a he's a man he's an editing room he's with the director he's on location he's he's with the stunt coordinators he's every stepping away if you don't show prepared on a set with Tom Cruise you may not be there hi slow he's he's he's so much fun you are you wanting to get to that level like hundreds so let me ask you this question Aaron speiser I don't know if you know Google's code you know J Lo's in respond sir one time Jennifer and I would enter spies probably five years ago I don't know the timeline five six years ago and we're in LA we still live in LA so we're in LA we're sitting in on an entrance like listen Patrick here's what you got to realize I said what is it he said look the biggest challenge in acting in Hollywood in these celebrities this is what I tell Will Smith I said what is it he said most of them can't hang because they don't know what to do during off time not during on time because you are you're done you have so much free time you tell my video again there's so much free time to make stupid mistakes how do you discipline yourself to the off time to not make the dumb mistakes you gotta make dumb mistakes you got to make the dumbest you got to make dumb mistakes you can't avoid the dumb mistakes you can't avoid the life lesson that's what my whole book is about the whole life lesson you can't run from that I welcome it smack me let let me hit my dumb ass so I know not to do it again because without that you're living in a hypothetical you think what if I you think alike and probably you need to know that this [ __ ] is stupid but but there's a part of it they did I want to peel the onion on that one you've not always thought like that you said at 37 when you kind of that's when it really clicked it got it you can have a hunch of it you can you can you know right from wrong right that doesn't mean it that's gonna stop you you really need to have like a punch in the face in real life I'm with you I'm a hundred percent with you there but you're not a drug guy I mean you see you joke they said the only time I smoked weed was with snow because if you're gonna smoke yeah yes the biggest drug known to marry success is worse than heroin success is worse than crime not a limit to it no because are you saying it's a bad thing or are you saying it's it's a bad thing if you don't realize it it's a bad thing if you if you don't put yourself in an environment to control it you gotta think where success comes what everything is given to you everything is granted what you need no don't get up okay don't walk there giving it gimme that what say you yeah no don't worry about that car well we'll go and bring it to you then house right there is that what you're trying to will get listen don't let build it and we'll put it underneath your house and you don't have to ever look at it is that what you want clothes no I don't go to the mall we got it somebody from the water brings it to people like you hmm when you get that if you're a person and really go this is real life now when that goes away you're you're [ __ ] lunatic how do you maneuver well one less will do my car my supposed to [ __ ] my own car do that clothes I can't go to the mall what they've been bringing my clothes for the last 12 years be around people yep huh you become that guy that's where success becomes the biggest drug success also makes you feel like you're invincible so in a way you're saying you're self aware of it so you're not worried about it because you are self aware that it can be addicting so I have control over it that's what you're saying I saw my anklet of just simply feeling like you're invincible I never was a Hollywood guy I'm never I was never the aggressive guy I was never the person that was disrespectful treating people bad I saw me thinking that I was simply invincible no I go we go we go be good we can do this no no no no we get you you you start to loose I realities are different levels miles is a very low level but I saw it but I needed to see it for me to go Oh Kevin ah everybody's not strong enough to catch themselves everybody not strong enough to catch themselves and call themselves out on and then point back to them and talked it up I just had the ability to do that and I'm blessed to be able to do that that's where another talent within my talents lie but people are ignorant to that side of addiction that's an addiction that's a real life thing but people don't understand that that's what people look at somehow you're gonna have you how do you understand it how do you if okay let's just say I'm somebody I'm coming up Keith Roberts and play the role in your life okay okay I come up to you you're Kevin Hart okay and you're the 38 year old Kevin Hart you know your rock star you're killing it you're superstar filling up football stadiums I'm a 26 year old guy coming on my YouTube video just blow up they're 120 million views I'm doing gigs I'm on demand you know I have 7 million followers on Twitter and I sit with you know yo what's up Kevin you know you know secretly I kind of feel like I'm gonna kick your ass and I'm gonna pass you up some little bit competitive I say hey Kevin I want some coaching man you know I'm just I got so many things coming my way you know I got so many things coming my way so you know what I hear in the streets is you don't do the drugs and you don't do this and you don't do that and so so how you how you staying disciplined man what advice could you give me what are you giving me I'm giving you real advice keep your circle tight keep circle tight make sure that's a bubble that can't be popped make sure your circle is a bubble that can't be popped in other words when you start to bring other things inside of a bubble ya aren't inside that bubble when that bubble grows the new thing around that bubble is going to pop it new people around you around popular I'm gonna get you pop whoever these people are grow with those people you guys should understand each other inside and out nice piece of advice I'll give you also look at the blueprint look at what other people have done look at work versus what hasn't worked does mean you gotta go down this road of that role good or bad you can make your decision based on things that you see don't alienate yourself from other people's success or down Falls a problem educate yourself to it besties advice I'm not here to change what you're doing or Taylor's doing it wrong I'm just simply giving information you can use it or not you choose to dope if you don't even more dope your life is gonna be your life no matter what if all of our lives are gonna be the same this world would be stupid of course it'll be stupid everybody can't be successful boring well everybody can't be the smartest person in general it's not possible there's just not gonna happen people are gonna make decisions based on what's right for them I know where I sit today I'm able to make decisions from a perspective that I now know I have that's great for me I know I'm happy I know that my priorities are straight I know what I want out of life in the long run I know what matters to me most I have all my ducks in a row nothing from the outside is going to affect my way of thinking today never it's possible I'm not I don't I don't work for the the will in want of the other person's perception I'm doing things to provide entertainment at some point time if you thought of that entertainment isn't right for you and I guess that means that my time don't I entertainment it's done there's other things that I can do my time is spent wisely if I'm not working on what my family that is over me I'm not running the streets I'm not I didn't want it's over I'm I'm happy I'm good I've seen it all I'm I'm good I don't want no problems from nobody I sit my ass down so let me ask you does this this leads to the next question do you think one has to have their like you said earlier one has to have the big fall to embrace this or can one really you know they say the difference between smart and wisdom is what you know smart you just kind of are it's everything you have to learn from your self wisdom is learning from other people's experience do you think to make it to the highest level I have to make the stupid mistakes I don't think I think you have to okay I think some people are fortunate enough to where you know they can avoid and you know dip duck and go around I'm saying that nobody's perfect oh I'm on a percent no naughty I don't care what you're looking at the outside looking in body is perfect in you know the great thing about America my dad sense something about America says Pat let me tell one thin about America here's what America is the sooner you figure my dad's in Middle Eastern philosopher it's a very weird man you meet coolest you'll meet him when we go to Vegas he said family here's America in America the moment you get to the top everybody wants to see you fall but here's also the great thing about America what's that after everybody makes you fall they can't wait to come back up he says it's a very weird thing you see just come and she'll look at Tiger Woods today everybody wants to see a window glass that's the truth have you ever seen a Truman Show of course yes it's one of the realest movies ever I'll give you one more example okay the guy that comes in here and it sits in your chair with no shirt on jeans it's cold outside scarf around his neck and gloves say he's the biggest and best person ever he's huge whoever this person is I'm creating just a persona and you sit and you talk to him and your mind the whole time during the interview you're thinking a man why the [ __ ] does he have on the scarf and no shirt and gloves but you know what because he's so big I'm not gonna say nothing I'm gonna act like this is okay I'm gonna keep my mouth shut everybody around you does it you no longer think this is weird this is a dope you just say no my level because everybody's afraid to talk to the guy that's considered to be the guy and then when something happens to the guy everybody jumps at the opportunity to go oh he's always been crazy mother crazy he just felt that what he was doing was okay cuz nobody ever said anything mMmmm that's why I say keep your circle tight because your circle or the people that should say hey man you don't go take your dumb ass decide to put on a shirt you ain't going out there with no damn jeans and no shirt and a scarf why not this is my new look no not on my watch you look stupid no man not accepted or you got to give us a real reason why doesn't make sense and my reason it makes sense and they may go I get it I like why he's doing it it's art he's trying to do something don't promote go we rollin with you or are you doing an experiment to see how many people don't say something you got to do something to make me understand where you are mentally so I know you okay but at least we had a conversation about it how many people choose not to have a conversation most that's the problem society as these it gets right there that's a gym that I leave you with that you're thinking about for a long time that's the biggest problem with society and then when things blow up especially in today's time scariest thing is we're living in the time of the power of the opinion it's cool to have an opinion I feel I think you know what they're doing I tell you what it's cool those opinions because of the internet drive the trailer so true of conversation every opinion drives the traffic in conversation when you feed that monster that monster only gets bigger it's not that you can do nothing you can do the best defense for that monster is to not even get into it at all [ __ ] Bobby because that's all that's in that world because from the outside somebody thinks well Kevin's best friends with everybody in Hollywood and they hang out together cuz you're on the outside you know it's like oh my gosh he must go to you know hang out would Duane Johnson all the time him an ice cube or probably playing three and three in the back you know in their house and they're you know he's doing laps with Leo and they're swimming and seeing who's fast they must be kicking at 24/7 together and party I am I'm a hundred percent in my house man I'm with my kids house kids when you when you read that me I've always been that way but now it's just it's even more it's it's times thirty and I do have great relationships in Hollywood would you say heaven and Hendrix changed a lot of perspectives like this yes yes could you like the age where she really talks my conversation with my daughter of real conversations man this this little girl is the best thing in my life but it's not afraid to tell her father how she feels when you start to see that when you realize that the Internet is that big that your kids see everything there is no escaping there is no wiggle room not you 12 or 13 throw teenager low teenager daddy's girls talk to you Oh hundred percent you gotta listen to her getting little seven-year-old some general otherwise Oh 13 Wolf Wolf you just wait this way man you just wait all those emotions gonna come to you and it's the best thing in the world because they identify with your level of love there will never be a level of love this accept it if it's not on par with what you're giving that's the best thing you know Steve Aoki right so Steve man yeah he's a good guy so Steve six weeks Mario would you say six weeks were with Steve and so so Steve story in your story are very close I don't know if you know this whole story I guess identicals me watch his documentary like his there's a documentary on Netflix about Steve it's sick I haven't seen is that more oh my god if you get a chance to watch this it is a sick documentary on who his dad is and what is that bit okay like you're sitting you're watching see I had no clue who this guy was it is amazing on how much of the turmoil even Tony Robbins right Tony Robbins you look at the story with his mom and dad it is amazing that the highest driven ambitious cycle obsessive guys that make it to the not in one person that point one it is point zero zero zero one percent MJ you know it's from you to read about him in this book do you get a strange operating in every one of them has one side where there's a lot of love and one side where there's a lot of issues mhm and it seems like that combination turn is for a great man huge combust you know an explosion and the great among beings to say I'm gonna go out there and do something about that this doesn't mean everybody's gonna do because maybe your brother was a different story but for someone like you you're gonna perform at the level that you performed so final stuff before we wrap up you want to be a billion about 45 years old you got so many things going on right now with your businesses and you know the question I would have for you is what I'm noticing is obviously on Instagram you're big you got nearly 60 million followers you're big on Twitter you're probably more active Instagram than Twitter although you are very active on Twitter tell me tell me and I want to hear it from your view not what we read about on social media with everybody saying how do you view YouTube and where do you foresee YouTube going and let me preface why I'm asking this question the reason why I'm asking this question is the following reason I see Will Smith coming up he just went on Instagram six months ago whenever the timeline was I see him coming up on YouTube and is doing his blogs and all this other stuff and he said YouTube is allowing me to stop be in Will Smith he says for so long I had to be Will Smith I no longer wanna be Will Smith that you think of the Will Smith I just want to be will I just wanna be Who I am right on YouTube eastern sea in a yourself with a laugh out loud Network and the stuff you do is out of control I mean that's the control segment that upset babe look at what look at what this guy just said is the fun hilarious right how do you view you in your world what does you took to you you know what man you you have to give credit to where it's due I mean look YouTube has been around for a long time in the digital space they're a monster they've ever been a monster and financially they had all the money in the world to try to compete on the level with these other content creators you're a poser who lose even Netflix to a certain degree but Netflix just took off and went into another space Netflix is in another atmosphere right now but YouTube has the relationships within the talent has the reach within their you know consumer to to go out and get the stars of today to come on our platform and be creative you're seeing Will Smith through it you're seeing myself do it with what to fit you're seeing me with my little talk show that they called his balls there they figured out that people love to watch content on demand you want it now you want it all right now so the days of TV with a time attached to it are over it's gone I want to watch it maybe when I wake up at 9:00 a.m. or maybe at 3:00 a.m. YouTube has ever been that search engine for you but now they're putting a TV perspective behind it so so because you haven't been on it for a while you just got on it less than a year maybe a year and a half yes and then doing Johnson got on it as well so he got on it as well about the same time so it sounds like you guys are probably communicating saying maybe we got a I don't know if it is or not you just want to know like you know you don't want to be the people that lose momentum not momentum you just don't want to lose touch with with your fan base you know but you could do that with a Facebook or Instagram or not the same winner see people think they're all the same than not I'm with you I'm trying to agree because I think the audience in YouTube is if there's people that follow you on Instagram that don't follow you on YouTube there's people are following you too Facebook is a completely one thing was it just to think for you to say we better pay attention to YouTube this thing could be a network and we got is that kind of what happened we said we got to get way attention to it all it's important for me as a CEO as a brand to have relationships with them all but YouTube takes more work than Instagram does and you're putting more work into YouTube Instagram or Twitter but Instagram isn't produced content like YouTube is Instagram is you being yourself showing you all aspects of you have used to short YouTube is now allowing you to go and create premium content so if you have ideas for television shows the talk shows for comedy documentaries if you got sketch ideas yeah different things YouTube is allowing people to take budgets and put those things together it's the same thing that I'm doing with the laugh-out-loud network which is why I partner with YouTube to do what v to do coldest balls because if I can have my laugh out loud Network gain exposure by teaming up with you - you've been taking some of their can to bring eyeballs to me into what I'm doing it'll help me grow and return I let them get me as a star on their platform in coldest balls are sponsored by Old Spice and the other one is sponsored by lyft and everything - sponsored by somebody yes it's also business for you there also I need to check for wrong and by the way on coldest balls I will say this year I don't think anybody did a more honest interview with Lavar ball than what you talk I'm telling you right now I'm telling you right now - see I don't think people realize that yeah you want to really and the way you did it was through comedy becoming but you ask the three question that knows no yeah you actually ask the question so if you haven't seen it you just got to go go watch that boy first are you gonna laugh are you gonna see how he puts the questions about the relationship with Lonzo and how you ask the questions about you know who you were and you can't even talk about highlights highlights or Nana you really address some things with him so that's why you know when we first started we sat down I said there's comedians you have to be very smart to be a comedian because your brain has to go a million miles an hour and then you have to be able to control it as well I think you from the outside well you know I've not hung out with you we don't have a 10 20 year relationship together you come across as a guy that excuse me that's very intuitive that's also a guy that's aware like you know on that side and then you understand the human nature side look nice screwed up I've got to come out all those things together I think that's a rare combination to obtain maybe that's what why you're doing what you're doing right now in the world and so with the fact that you know we're gonna have you you know a couple fun stuff I'm curious about on your Mount Rushmore of comedians who do you have up to who your for Mount Rushmore comedians and you have in your opinion prior Murphy Chapelle and I would say Rock and if I could take me out of it because I always love to just throw myself in there because you have to see yourself what's the great to be the great I put George Carlin in there as well so Cosby's not in there Cosby here's the thing Cosby on a performing side with a craft and as a comedian is a hundred percent one of the best ever do it he doesn't surpass the Rock Chappell Murphy Pryor stage for me I'm a storyteller which is why I'm a fan of Cosby got it and he's great at that but I think those guys are just different monsters when it comes to stand-up comedy I mean they all have a unique unique moment in in the world of comedy Pryor broke the mold for raunchy comedy Pryor made it really cool to be honest the term comedic rockstar that I use now that comes from Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy was the first rock and roll like star to tell jokes with the microphone huge crowds large crowds I got it I got no shirt on this is me this is me but y'all coming out to an event people dressing up to go see Eddie Murphy outside of Eddie Murphy's Chappell Chappell getting a 50 man dollar offer probably from Comedy Central yeah unheard of from the sketch comedy show success that's that's groundbreaking that's unreal and what he did Chris Rock Chris Rock as a writer as a director as a producer as a comedian going on special number for a guy who toured the globe and made it cool to go to South Africa made it cool to go to Dubai made it cool to go to all these other places that people weren't going to Drock was the one that was going over there making me go oh my god I gotta get there when you say Colin Colin did ten specials people don't even know that Tim Tim has done something else by the way he's amazing this stuff is something amazing so as a student of it you know there's so many names that I wish that I could name I mean I'm huge Martin Lawrence Bill Cosby to keep your car you are Robin Williams fan Robin Williams when the greatest ever do it Steve Martin right behind them I mean Martin you can I can be here all day that's your goal okay your your Mount Rushmore those are once you put up there very cool so look you know every time you know I when we were meeting us I got to get this guy gift and one by the way the book we got the book we'll do this at the answer some of the guys we can get that as well so I know you're running be a billionaire okay and I think you're well on track with what you're doing to be there and uh you know so I said look I don't know if you're a reader or not I've read 1,500 business books oh wow and I said I got if I can give a couple books that have been the most influential to me in business but what we're doing I got it whether you read it or not you're busy I don't know if you're gonna read it or not so one really one of them is blue ocean strategy okay and blue ocean strategy I think this will help out with what you're trying to do with business because this tells you that most people are in a business with a red ocean that sharks are eating each other and everyone's trying to steal from each other he gives the formula on how to have a blue ocean where you're going in the market where you don't need to steal from anybody Wow you create a whole new market that's that book and then the other one is not only what I've read it but I'm going to have a broken down a sus love the book when I talk to you to see you I look forward to it that's it and that's a promise I look forward to promise this one priority playing and then this one Valeo you mentioned a few things in the interview when he said the taxes all this other stuff so kind of give you a backstory on the Raiders book principles he's the founder of Bridgewater house okay the seventeen billion dollar guy okay and he wrote this book for three different types of readers he's out of New York he's a beast he's a guy that I think it would really I mean Gates looks at him as a mentor really high end people would look at him as a mentor he wrote the book for three different types of people one guy that's gonna read the entire book and that's not most people the other guy that wants to go to the most important page and then somebody that wants to read the outline I think this is a book that you'll go to an outline and say this is a section I need to read fantastic principles on how to run a company in a business okay so the fact that you want to go on down to preneur side I think you can also this book I'm gonna tell you something joy it man I'm gonna tell you something before we wrap up man I like the fact that it was a conversation I'm bigging one conversation and I think you get a lot from people in having conversations we weren't supposed to be here for an hour or whatever and you get lost in time when you're actually having a great conversation how long have we been together is it an hour our hour and a half this thing went for it I want audiences hold a great kana my gosh and that's what that's what I like the buddies have you are a very special guy man let me know yeah I've been a fan but it's a whole different level so his book his book I can't make this stuff up good gift okay his book here's what we're gonna do this is what we're gonna do that I'm gonna give he's gonna sign we got four of them here this is what you got to do when this comes up this interview comes out you got to go by the book on Amazon you got to post it on Twitter tag me in him that you bought it we're gonna pick three of you that buy it and we're gonna sign sign sign sign copies to you on three people so you gotta tag me in him maybe he'll like one of them that you want he'll pick and choose who it is he'll let me know we'll send three signed copies to you but you got to go on Amazon we'll put the link on the bottom or you put a bitly link below so they can go pick that up signed copy three people will be chosen by he and I and we'll send that over to you again brother thank you so much you say thank you this is a good time this is

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Length: 79min 15sec (4755 seconds)

Published: Thu May 03 2018